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He's our first world champion in freestyle wrestling Rick Sanders

We can endure anything

and adapt and pivot and change

Wrestling gave us that ability. I would say nothing in life has impacted me or the things wrestling has taught me in terms of

self-reflection resilience

toughness some guys have it some guys don't adversity 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed and

Everything that is shaped my life and

Where I'm at today would not be there without the values and basically the lessons I've learned to the sport of wrestling

For me wrestling saying a life because it's allowed me to focus and channel my energy

We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrestled

Natural talent helps, but it's it's

5% of the ingredients it pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort

It humbled me taught me humility nothing can hit humble you more than wrestling

I think it's the learning to adapt right you learn you learn how to adapt you learn how to solve problems

Now probably back my time that's good wrestling if they give me one thing more than anything else it's not toughness

Welcome back to the wrestling change my life podcast folks. This is your host Ryan Warner our guest today is the great day in

Gable it's a short episode

But the stories worth it. So here's the context we were out at coach gables cabin a few weeks ago

Recording an interview for our upcoming audio documentary which will announce sometime in mid July hopefully before the Olympics

And after the interview coach gable's giving us a tour of his cabin

We stumble upon a picture of he and Rick Sanders and he proceeds to tell us this amazing story that I personally have never heard before

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